Tilden Park Field Trip was a Terrific Experience!!

Thanks again to all the parents that helped make our Field Trip so much fun for the kids. The bus ride was a little long, but well worth it as the kids got to explore and learn about nature through discovery. Many parents commented how much they enjoyed the hike, the farm, and learning about various things in the Environmental Center. I hope that your child came home a little tired, but full of great stories and memories. Here are a few of the pictures that were shared with me from our trip. -Mr. Linnet

Field Trip Information: Tilden Park & Little Farm, May 26th, 2015

I am trying to share this with all of you in HTML format. Let me know if you can't see it. Field trip forms are going home this week. Please return them by the 15th. Thanks! -Mr. Linnet

Earth Day 2015: Taking care of the Earth's "Boo-Boo's"

Since Earth Day was in the middle of Art Week in our class, I thought I would incorporate a fun art project into our Earth Day lessons.  Besides reading and watching videos to learn about Earth Day, we also made a mini-book, word search, and poster to tell about the different ways we could help the Earth by following the 3 R's: recycle, reduce, and reuse.

The most exciting event however, was an art project where the students used blue and green washable markers to draw and color the Earth on a coffee filter.  After they were finished we took the filters outside and sprayed them with some water, then set them on the drying rack to dry.  The colors of the washable markers ran together when water was introduced, and the result was this beautiful mosaic of what Earth looks like.  We then glued them to a poster that stated simply, "I will help fix the Earth's Boo-Boo's!  We then added a band-aid to the picture (because that's what our parents do for us when we get a boo-boo).  The finished projects were so cute, and the students had a great reminder to take home that each of us have a responsibility to do our part and help the Earth.

Here are a few examples of students with their "Earth Boo-Boo" Art.

Handshake Art: A great way to introduce kids to color mixing!!

We conducted this activity in class during Art Week.  The kids had a lot of fun and we turned our handprints into a nice poster.  Here are a few pics from the event.  They were also showcased on the School's Facebook page!!

Sebastian and Evan show us how Yellow and Red make Orange!

Sydney and Mikaela show us how to mix Blue and Red to make Purple!

Julian and Jaeden show us that Yellow and Blue make Green!

Here are a few other "before" pictures.  They don't look like they enjoyed this at all!!

Here's the poster we made.  It says "The hands that Play together, Learn together".